<p>Axiom: that cheating is a breech of integrity and can result in devastating consequences when caught.</p>
<p>Let's say there is hypothetical people A and B. Person A and Person B goes to the same school. Person A does the essays, asks for the recommendations, etc. Person B cheats by taking parts of essays from other people and has teachers who lie for them.
Both A and B want to go to X school since they both really like it there. Person A doesn't get in because his essays or other stuff aren't up to par and Person B gets in by plagerizing and lying.</p>
<p>Assuming B graduates school X before he ever gets caught, would you rather be person A to live with the thought that a cheater beat you, or person B to live with the thought that they had to cheat in order to get in?</p>
<p>That’s terrible. I would rather be person A because I knew that I still had my integrity. The thing is that what they did gets found out, Person B has serious consequences to deal with. I’m sure that Person B would very little guilt about it otherwise they wouldn’t be able to do it. Sometimes, cheaters win and you can’t do anything. I wouldn’t feel guilty about that part but I would feel guilty if I didn’t tell anyone about them cheating their way into college.</p>
<p>I think I would probably be person A, the guilt isn’t worth it. To cheat for something that important, it just is unacceptable by any means of justification.</p>
<p>I’d rather be person B. I’ve cheated quite a bit before, not because I couldn’t do it (as I had done my entire life before I started; had a 4.0 before and still do now), but because I just didn’t feel like doing stupid useless work anymore and memorizing facts so you can spit them back out at the teacher on demand. </p>
<p>I’ve never felt guilty before.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t take it as far as person B did; I’m talking cheating on homework, quizzes, tests, etc. But in the end, he succeeded, and I doubt this supposed “guilt” is going to come. If I knew I got into a selective college based on intelligently piecing together parts of different essays, I’d be damn proud and happy.</p>
<p>Well, Person A can have morals AND be all those things that Person B is. I personally draw the line with certain things, namely cheating and college acceptances. But, just because you’re morally opposed to cheating (which is heavily condemned in colleges) doesn’t mean that you cannot succeed in life. If anything Person B is more likely to end up the future head of whatever-firm has an WorldCom style scandal.</p>
<p>Having morals is SO overrated, isn’t it?</p>
<p>Any intelligent person would see that it’s not worth it, especially if found out.</p>
<p>I’ll be honest, I would want to get into that school, If person B is guaranteed to never get caught, then I would be person B.</p>
<p>Though ideally I would get in to this hypothetical school without cheating.</p>
<p>(In either case, I wouldn’t really care if I cheated to get in, or that someone got in and cheated their way in, well I might be a little irked in the second situation).</p>
<p>i find this to be a incredibly intriguing question…those who think it is immoral to choose person B …of course I see where you are coming from but I think you need to see this situation for what it is…person A is forced to live with the fact that their chance was taken by somebody else, whether it was obtained fairly or not is not the question, in the end person A is the unhappy one as person B most likely doesn’t think twice about his or her high school cheating…you think people on Wall Street feel guilty when they make millions because they knew a company was gonna fail…i dont think so, im pretty sure they laugh all the way to the bank</p>
<p>If you want something, go get it. You cant sit there and expect life to just give things to you just because you played by the rules. Where I come from, people live that philosophy everyday so I live it as well. Morals are perceived differently from person to person.</p>
<p>What does my friend jumping off a cliff have to do with my background? Poverty, race, money, and violence influenced where I’m from very much, and if by family had decided to sit there and call the cops and pet them ‘save their lives’ in order to play by the rules, none of us would be here alive today. They wanted life, so they went and got it.</p>
<p>ehhh.. morals are being lost, but who cares? I’m not a cheater, but I’d rather live life not being walked all over like a doormat. That’s life. I’d rather be person B, cuz I don’t have a very guilty conscience (despite this, i don’t cheat. Instead, I have an acute sense of avoiding trouble due to the not completely accurate perceptions that I’m a good, quiet, hardworking student).</p>